beadle

The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle; pinioned him in his arms; and shrieked aloud for the beadle.

'Do you know where the poor boy is now? 'Mr Brown low asked, when the beadle had explained the reason for his visit.

'Hold your tongue, Beadle, ' said the second old gentleman, when Mr. Bumble had given vent to this compound adjective.

The beadle is so careful that two gentlemen not very neat about the cuffs and buttons should see all that is to be seen .

The beadle bolted in haste his last mouthful of fat bacon, washed down the greasy morsel with the last rinsings of the pot of ale.

So Noah ran through the streets as quickly as he could to fetch the beadle.

Beadle: a minor parish official formerly employed in an English church to usher and keep order during services.

The beadle hit him on the back, and so naturally Oliver cried even more.

'You're a kind-hearted woman, Mrs Corney, 'said the beadle.

Mr. Snagsby's suggestion is the practical suggestion after all, and the beadle must be called in.

'No one else, Mr. Sowerberry, ' replied the beadle. 'Here! I've brought the boy. ' Oliver made a bow.

and as the beadle coughed, preparatory to bidding her good-night, bashfully inquired whether--whether he wouldn't take a cup of tea?

In1941, George Wells Beadle and Edward Lawrie Tatum showed that mutationsin genes caused errors in certain steps in metabolic pathways.

The grim beadle now made a gesture with his staff.

smoking tobacco under the beadle's very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling;